Ms. G's students are beginning to think of who they want to be. They are noticing that the way they have been living and the life they want to lead don't connect. Target: Use your life to sequence events by making a timeline of your life from now until you are 80. Remember to put events in order and make connections between each of the events. Use comic life or make a keynote to communicate major events in your future.Use pictures to represent events.Use words to identify what you will have to do to achieve these events.
Target: Analyze characters by comparing the students and the situations in Diary 7 and Diary 8. Discussion: Discuss your influences and how they effect your need for acceptance. Enrichment: Create a project where you can express what defines you.
The students in Freedom Writers Diary are discovering their true colors and the amount of inner strength they have. In order to learn about themselves they had to ignore the outside pressures that influence them.
What makes me unique?
What gets in the way of being ourselves?
Create an "I Am" poem that represents who you are. I AM Poem Template
Example:
Create a KeyNote with images and quotes that tell a story of your beliefs and values. Include at least 10 slides and 5 images. Use the "True Colors" Keynote as your guide.
Example: "True Colors" Video
Ms. G's students are beginning to think of who they want to be. They are noticing that the way they have been living and the life they want to lead don't connect.
Target: Use your life to sequence events by making a timeline of your life from now until you are 80.
Remember to put events in order and make connections between each of the events.
Use comic life or make a keynote to communicate major events in your future.Use pictures to represent events.Use words to identify what you will have to do to achieve these events.
EXAMPLE
Target: Analyze characters by comparing the students and the situations in Diary 7 and Diary 8.
Discussion: Discuss your influences and how they effect your need for acceptance.
Enrichment: Create a project where you can express what defines you.
The students in Freedom Writers Diary are discovering their true colors and the amount of inner strength they have. In order to learn about themselves they had to ignore the outside pressures that influence them.
What makes me unique?
What gets in the way of being ourselves?
Create an "I Am" poem that represents who you are.
I AM Poem Template
Example:
Create a KeyNote with images and quotes that tell a story of your beliefs and values.
Include at least 10 slides and 5 images. Use the "True Colors" Keynote as your guide.
Example: "True Colors" Video
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